A thousand years ago, when their civilization arose in the Southwest, the people who built these great stone structures did not call themselves Anasazi. The word did not even exist: It was created, ...

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The Anasazi people of New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon had a sophisticated trade structure with other tribes before their civilization was felled by a 50-year drought in the 12th century, according to ...

A new computer simulation of the changing environmental conditions around one of the Anasazi cultural centers early in the past millennium suggest that drought was not the only factor behind a sudden ...